A Wilson Borough man made off with bags of frozen shrimp he stole from the Giant in Palmer Township on Wednesday, only to be caught when a woman told authorities she wasn't going to take the blame, police said.

Palmer Township police said they received a report of a loss prevention employee chasing a man across the parking lot of the 25th Street Giant. When the officer arrived, a man told him he was speaking to a woman pushing a shopping cart near Freemansburg Avenue, police said.

A man then ran from the direction of Giant and told the woman to "get out of here," the man told the officer, police said. Police said they caught up with the woman a couple of blocks away. She called a man named Scott and told him to meet them, because "she is not getting in trouble for his (expletive)," police said.

Scott Anthony Folmar, of the 2300 block of Sycamore Street, arrived and police identified him from surveillance photos and by the Giant loss prevention employee Erick Vidal, police said. Vidal told police shrimp was recovered in the parking lot and that he saw the man place a large quantity of it into a shopping cart, police said.

Vidal told an officer he followed the man, who left the store through the floral area without paying, police said. The man ran away when Vidal identified himself as security, he told police. The groceries were valued at $268, police said.

Folmar, 44, has three prior retail theft convictions and a warrant for failure to appear out of Snyder County, Pennsylvania, according to court records. He was arraigned before District Judge James Narlesky on Wednesday on a charge of retail theft-fourth offense, court documents state.

He is in Northampton County Prison in lieu of $7,500 bail, according to court records.